The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-05-20
SOUTHERN eLEANINes.

named Collie Rucker. IN open COURT
claiming that james McElroy, who is un-
der sentence to be hanged at that place
on the 18th inst, for the murder Of Wal
ter Mort, was innocent Of the crime for
which he was condemned. Ruczer assert
ed that he him self committed the crime.
and was re ady to hang for it. There is
no credence given the statement, how
ever, as he is generally considered of an
unsound mind.
A most important new industry for Bir-
/ min CHAM, Ala, has been provided for in
the chartering of the Birmingham Glass
! Works, with capital stock of 100000,
all of which the declaration specifies is to
/ be paid in. It's purpose is to make Ill
| manner of glassware.
A horrible accident occurre l a few days
ago few miles from Murray, in Gallo
way County, KY, which resulted i'll the
death of Mr. Bascom Hood It seems
! that the victim of the accident, in COM
/ pany with Mr.. Cluff Hood, was engaged
! in unloading some heavy tImbers from
wagon on the farm of Hardin Watkins.
! Cluff's foot slipped, throwing the whole
weight Of the log upon BascOm, crushing
him to the earth and fFacturing his skull
in several places, causing Instant death.
Ferdinand Davenport, residing near
| Trenton, KY, was thrown from his horse
! a few days ago and was dra gged to death
| The Gate City Guard has recovered
| against the Iron Mountain railroad.
J. f. Fallns, who brutany murdered
| young Powell IN Elmore County, Ala, re-
Gently, has been cap ured, and is now
confined in the Jail at Wetumpka.
| A Yankee lawyer has written TO the
register of deeds of Chowan County. N.
| c., that client of his has the record book
of equity of that county for the period
| between 1888 and 1895; that it had been
taken from the Office during the late war,
and that he will res tore it for 500.
The Tennessee State Druggists Asso-
citation held its second annual meeting
at Nashville last week. The following Of
ficers were chosen: President, Dr. B. A.
Sloan, Chattanooga; first vice president,
D. F. Goodyear, Memphis; second vice
president, J. A McCampben, Knoxville:
secretary, j. L. Thompson, Nashville;
treasurer, E. L. Laurent. Nashville.
Charles Talbot, the Memphis uayoso
Hotel clerk who stole Fannie Davenport's
diamonds, was tried in the Supreme
Court at Jackson last week. The decis-
ion of the court below was reversed on
account of the misconduct of the judge in
the Criminal Court in giving an oral sup
Elemental charge to the jury, and in i'm
properly interfering with the deliberation
of the jury who tried the case in the court
below.
A portion of the Kirkman block, corner
of Church and College streets, Nashville,
Tenn, occupied by the Rabin-Jones
| Creamery and Dairy Company, Hermit
age Hosiery and Suspender Company and
the American Paper-Box Company was
burned few days since. The losses are
as follows: V. L. Kirkm an, $4,000;
Rabin-Jones' Creamery Com pany, S25,-
coo; Hermitage Hosiery Company, So,
600.
Lying in a narrow room of the Cameron
Hotel, at Chattanooga, Tenn, the spirit OF
Allen Hatch, at one time the merchant
| prince of Milwaukee, Wis, quietly took
it's flight a few days since. The deceased
went to Chattanooga several months ago
, for his health, but his wonderful constitu-
. ton was gone, and being eighty four
years old, he did not rally. Mr.. Hatch, it
is said, was at one time worth s., ,000, 900,
: yet he died in abject poverty, having been
clred f or by the Masons for two months.
At Greenville, KY, few days since, a
, fange blew out of a boiler in J. E. Mills
Touring mill, fatally scalding the engi-
neer, James Allen. Allen had just tight
ened the fange bolts when the explosion
occurred, and was only few feet from
4 the boiler. He lost his bearings in the
yapor, which filed the room, and his
I presence of mind at the same time, and
e ran directly into the escaping steam,
I which cooked his face, neck and arms
most horribly. He was forty years old
: and leaves large family.
George NJ Kraft, proprietor of the Gil
u max dining-rooms in Knoxville, Tenn,
9 had been missing for several days, when
q two fishermen who We're hauling their
lines in the Tennessee river raised dis
s figured corpse to the surface. The body
s was idenufid as that of the missing Kraft
o The manner of his drowning is a mystery
Jefferson Davis visited Meridian, MISS.
|, last week to attend the annual sess sion o1
d the Mississippi State Press Association
; A perfect ovation was accorded him. On
d his arrival he passed between lines o1
=, school children, who strewe his patti
It with flowers. Miss Winnie D wis, whC
arrived later from Chattanooga. was me-
by a COMMITTEES of young ladies' They
were the guests of Colonel J. r. McIn
L tosh. at whose residence an informal re
9 csptiOn was held for three hours, wher
'' they were visited by the lad es and chill
s dren of the city.
= Sheriff Hic<ma of Henderson. Ky, re
ceived an off ial order from Governor
. Knott to delay the execution of the negrt
NICE roy until July L. The scaffold haC
been erec. G I, and 4 l was in readiness fol
the hanging on the 18th inst. Owing Il
L threats of the colore1 people that they
= would rescue the prisoner, he has beer
d guarded for some time by twenty to thir
:, ty citzens armed with Winchester re
e peating rifles. McElroy has no sympa
f thizers outside of his race. Much regre
= is felt that the Governor has interfered
~
W. R Harrig has filed petition in tn
Law and Equity Court at Louisville, Ky.
. against the School Board and the city 0
Le Louisville, asking damages in the sum o
q S6)0,00( For cause of action he recite
" that children over the age of six year
c and under the age of eighteen years ar
e entitled by the laws of the city and Stat
b to free education IN the public schools
and that the school on Fifth aud Yo-l
streets is a public school, so designate
= by law. After thus enunciating the law
he alleges that his four children, Hen ry
/ Lula Mary and Samuel Tl1sn, were re
u fused permission to further continue a
said school by the principal, Mrs Mon
If serrat, ''without stating any reason onl
l. that the children smelled-stunk.' Where
n fore he asks that ths defendants be CON
a peeled to pay Sl5), GOD for each of said chill
dren.
More fence-cutting in Texas.
r Hooper Alexander, a prominent Atlant
n (Ga.J lawyer, slapped editor Atwood
J. face few nights ago because of the Ia
/. ter's attack upon Colonel Blrke of tn
Of Gate City Guard. 1t is said that tn
le Guards have agreed that every memb be
l. shall insult Mr.. Atwood until he is force
70 to fight or leave town.
! The English commissioners on the Vii
ginia State debt question have submitte
their proposition. What It is based on
not positively known, but it is asserte
u that the bondholders' representatives d'
L mand 500, 600 year about so 000
principal, while the Virginia commission
. ers want to allow S750,0)9 on So 600. COZ
The Governor Of Tex IS Offers SOD r.
, ward each for fence-cutters-
= The parties to the romantic story whic
has been teIegraphed from New Havei
u Coma, Of the repayment Of debt of hone
70 Of nearly $4,000, are weII-Snown
n, Charleston, :. e. The Southern banke
\ and former b aolz-kesper, is Geore